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Wednesday Oct 01, 2008

What is important in Brasil? Obviously football, samba dance, carnival and if you come here to Brasil and talk to developers: open sourced software. This week in Brasil the community of developers, including students, came together for 3 days. The above picture shows you the density of a city discovered in the year 1532. The picture also represents a world leader, as a country, for progressing open sourced software. Today 1 out of ever 10 software developers reside in Brasil!

I had the pleasure of personally thanking, on behalf of Sun, Sean Maloney EVP and Chief Sales Marketing Officer at Intel for his partner keynote at Sun's 1st 2008-2009 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Paulo. Sun's partner Intel along with our other partners from AMD and Ericsson certainly had lots of technology to share this past week. Sean discussed Solaris innovation as a partner. Innovation that is valuable to the open sourced community via OpenSolaris despite what others may think.

I keynoted after Sean and discussed value to and from the community when you innovate, collaborate and integrate together. I demonstrated how opensourced virtualization software for the desktop enables a developer to work with multiple guest operating systems as virtual machines. We had a OpenSolaris 2008.05 virtual machine (in local language - Brasil Portugeuse) installing and removing packages seamlessly with its package manager. The OpenSolaris 2008.11 release coming next month just gets better. Heck we even had the virtual machine check the followings of the U.S. stock market crisis via a Firefox browser and My Yahoo. Finally we put the OpenSolaris virtual machine through some work to demonstrate storage data services such as ZFS and snapshots. Important technology if your want to build open storage products.